mechanic wrote:Jack Brink in N Hollywood CA.made many of the repro side vendors but I lost track of him. Don't know if he's even around anymore.

I spoke with Jack on the phone only three or four weeks ago. He had been winding down Metal Form Products for years, has now relocated and mostly retired, putting whatever leftover inventory into such deep storage that he told me he has difficulty getting to any of it. At any rate, the distinctive Dictator item was not among the side-vendors he reproduced anyway: it doesn't appear in any edition of his catalog that I've seen.

Does your Dictator actually have the Caille side-vendor hardware in it--? Attached are pictures of a beat-up, old Doughboy (1935); it appears there's some parts to the right of the coin slides and a rod running down the lower inside of the cabinet, below the handle. One of the French members of the forum (Mills) apparently has a Cadet (1936) equipped with a side-vendor also:

mechanic wrote:Jack Brink in N Hollywood CA.made many of the repro side vendors but I lost track of him. Don't know if he's even around anymore.

I spoke with Jack on the phone only three or four weeks ago. He had been winding down Metal Form Products for years, has now relocated and mostly retired, putting whatever leftover inventory into such deep storage that he told me he has difficulty getting to any of it. At any rate, the distinctive Dictator item was not among the side-vendors he reproduced anyway: it doesn't appear in any edition of his catalog that I've seen.

Does your Dictator actually have the Caille side-vendor hardware in it--? Attached are pictures of a beat-up, old Doughboy (1935); it appears there's some parts to the right of the coin slides and a rod running down the lower inside of the cabinet, below the handle. One of the French members of the forum (Mills) apparently has a Cadet (1936) equipped with a side-vendor also:

Hi again marsonionMany thanks for your input.Yes ,my Dictator has the holes in the case and the linkage inside to work with the side vender.i doubt very much that i will find a dictator one, any rate.A later one from a Cadet or Dough boy would be fine as they are rather plain like the dictator case.there is one on eBay at moment and its quite pricey but looks real nice.